The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has criticized the Federal Government for planning to appeal October 13, 2022, Court of Appeal order for the release of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB accused the government of a series of threats and intimations, saying it is ready to meet with them at the Supreme Court.
The group also alleged that security agencies – not the Eastern Security Network (ESN) – were responsible for the recent truck drivers’ blockade of some roads in the Southeast over the non-release of Kanu.
In Abuja, a pan-Igbo socio-political pressure organization, the Southeast Revival Group (SERG), also accused the government of victimizing and excluding the Southeast through its policies.
SERG also warned that the non-release of Kanu was not in the national interest.
The group, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Willy Ezugwu, recalled that the United Nations had before the October 13 judgment asked the government to ”release Kanu unconditionally.”
It also lamented that the Igbo have been “raising the alarm on marginalization of the Southeast and turning the zone into a butcher zone by the actions and inactions of the Federal Government .”
The group, therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to order over his handling of Kanu’s case.
